Personal Paragraphs.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue III, 19 January 1895, Page 63

Personal Paragraphs.

THE Hon. A. J. Cadman had a busy time in Auckland. He was employed daring the whole of his stay in stalling off persons with axes to grind. He is now on a visit to Coromandel on what may be described as an inspection of mines. He will also visit the Thames and Te Aroha, from whence he will go to the Bay of Plenty and subsequently to the Urewera Country, whither he will be accompanied by mining experts.

Napier’s Town Clerk, Captain Bower, is, as all Hawke’s Bay people and their friends know, one of the most industrious and genial gentlemen in this colony. He is so to speak, a municipal treasure, and is regarded as such by those in authority, and the town populace generally. Nevertheless, one feels that the town clerk’s life must be cast in exceptionally pleasant places, and one is inclined to envy when one reads in one of the local papers that he ‘ has returned from his fortnightly holiday (which he spent in al fresco pursuits, such as riding, fishing, boating, etc, at Mabia Peninsula) and, we are glad to relate, has much benefited by the change.’ A man who gets a holiday when he can do all that once a fortnight is indeed edongh to make one break the tenth commandment for his ■ billet.’ Bat perhaps the man who wrote the local meant • his fortnight’s holiday.’

Mr John Andrews, who has for some time back been one of the ‘ ’orny ’anded sons of toil ’ in this colony, has suddenly and unexpectedly been left the handsome fortune of £40,000. Should Mr Andrews go Home he will not regret his experience as a colonial ‘ working man.’ That personage is the autocrat in this part of the world. On his retnrn to the pecuniary but powerless class (one presumes on the probability of the labouring period having been * an episode ’ only), Mr Andrews will doubtless remember with natural pride that for a time he tasted real power, for a time be was of the class to whom all heads must be bent, and to please whom anything and everything—in and out of reason must be done —or promised ; the class who to the exclusion of all others demand the world and the fulness thereof, and to whom ministers bow down and worship, and declare they shall have it; the class who have taken to themselves a title at which all other classes—all whose work is not manual—have learned to tremble: the title of ‘The Wokkin’ Man.’

Mr Carey, managing director of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, who has been for some time at Whakarewarewa, has returned to Auckland, and will, according to present arrangements, leave for Australia immediately.

The news of the accident to the Misses Russell while out driving was received with considerable alarm by the many friends of the * Captain ’ and themselves in all parts of the colony, and the anxiety of those interested was not alloyed till the papers announced in the telegraphic columns that neither was dangerously hurt, though both were severely bruised and shaken.

Mr Myers—* Wellington’s baby city councillor’—with Miss Myers and his brother were in Auckland during the week, having returned from their trip to the Hot Lakes.

Chief Justice Ide, of Samoa, who is with his daughters making a swift tour of the colony, has all the dryness of the traditional Yankee. A member of the United States Bar, Chief Justice Ide is not only an eloquent speaker, but an excellent raconteur. He is the best of company, and seems thoroughly to enjoy every moment of his holiday. He returns to Samoa by the 'Frisco mail at the end of the present month.

The Messrs Newton, well-known in musical and amateur theatrical circles in Wellington, are on a visit to Lake Takapuna, Auckland.

The Rev. William Beatty’s institution as incumbent of one of the Auckland suburban churches took place on Thursday night. St. Mark’s, Remuera, the scene of bis future labours, was crowded with an interested and sympathetic congregation. The Most Rev. Bishop Cowie (Primate) was accompanied by one of the local clergy, and the ceremony was an impressive and interesting one. The appointment of Mr Baatty is a singularly popular one, though deep regret is expressed at the resignation of Mr Richards, the late incumbent.

Hone Heke, M.H.R., who has been doing the North ‘ on the stump,’ has been somewhat in evidence during the past week owing to his attacks on the Government. He is certainly an outspoken critic.

Mr Tibiw, of the Grammar School, Auckland, is enjoying his holiday in Tasmania. He was greatly interested in and pleased with the Hobart Exhibition.

The death is announced in Southland papers of Mr Edmund Rogers, who held the position of Provincial Treasurer when Southland was re-united to Otago in 1870-71. When Southland was first disjoined from Otago it was decided to issue debentures, but as all connected with the Government were in blissful ignorance of the form which these should take, the services of Mr Rogers were secured as accountant, hs having gained the experience during his connection with a firm of stockbrokers in London.

Dr. Davy—well-known in Auckland—who recently passed each brilliant examinations at Oxford and London, was, when the last Home mail left, on the eve of starting for Coolgardie with his wife and children. It is to be hoped that information as to the real condition of that goldfield arrived in London in time to delay the doctor’s departure.

The sportswoman in New Zealand is usually enthusiastic, and occasionally one hears of sympathy with the sport of kings expressed in concrete form. Miss Kilgour, of Auckland, has, according to the Hawera paper, sent the Egmont Racing Club a handsome present. It takes the form of a blue riband, an adornment for the winner of the Hack Sires Produce Stakes, to be run for at the coming meeting, after the style of the blue riband for the winner of the English Derby. The riband is of light blue, and there is beautifully worked on it in fiorally ornamented letters in gold the legend, * 1895— E.H.5.P.5.—1895.’ Quite an aesthetic and tasteful addition to the substantial prize which the club is offering for this race. Miss Kilgour will certainly be extremely popular in Hawera when she settles down there after her marriage. This present has alone ensured that.

The death of Mr A. B. Allwright occurred under exceptionally sad and painful circumstances a day or so ago. He was for many years postmaster of Lyttelton, and in that position won the respect of all with whom his duties brought him in contact. Mr W. Allwright, father of the deceased, was one of the original settlers who came out on the Creasy. His brother, Mr H. Allwright, was at one time a member of the House, his constituency being Lyttelton. The late postmaster was an enthusiast in matters Masonic, and was ever willing to devote himself to any work in connection with the craft.

The news of the death of Mr J. E. Buchanan, in England, on New Year’s Day, must have been a severe shock to bis many friends and old pupils. Mr Buchanan was a popular master at the Ashburton High School, and was on a flying visit to his English friends in Wiltshire when he died.

Mr S. H. Gollan, who spent Christmas and New Year attending the Auckland races, has arrived back in Napier. Mr Gollan does not, by the way, look what he is—one of the strongest men in the colony. Yet the man who attempted to * stick up ’ this keen sportsman, would find he had selected a tough contract in the winner of the Diamond Sculls.

Ex-Mayor Brandon’s (of Wellington) silver cradle, which is to be presented to him to commemorate the birth of a child during his term of office, will not be, as some people have gravely imagined, of a size to be of any practical use. It will be nine and a half inches in length, not two or three feet as some innocent-minded citizens supposed. This information should modify the indignation of a correspondent who writes to me several sheets of shrill denunciations of the scandalous waste of * giving a cradle that must cost thousands of pounds.’

Captain A. W. Cameron, who made many friends in New Zealand when in the service of the Union Company, is now in command of a steamer in the Liverpool-Galveston trade.

The some time editor of the Poverty Bay Herald, Mr Hugh Thomson, has purchased a * little thing of his own,’ and is now editor and proprietor of the Paraekaretu Express. May the circulation increase and the advertisers wax generous !

Mr Fox, the popular manager of the Picton-Blenheim railway, is moved to Newmarket. The news of his removal was received in Picton with great regret. It is felt (writes our Picton correspondent) that no one else can fill the place so ably filled by him. Old and young, great and small, all join in deploring the necessity for his departure, though it is promotion in position. He has been goodness itself to everything and everybody requiring help. A friend in need, a popular society man, and yet withal so devoted to his profession and the best interests of the public that nothing would induce him to neglect his work for one moment. His constant and personal supervision of the line has won for him the entire confidence of the public, and during bis stay in Picton such a thing as an accident has never been anticipated. The loss to Picton is an undoubted gain to Newmarket, and everybody hopes to Mr Fox too.

Mr Herbert Jones, F.G.S., who has lectured in several places on his impressions of New Zealand, and who is writing a book on this colony, should certainly be admirably informed on all subjects connected with the colony. He must now be in the third year of his tour, and he has travelled pertinaciously the entire time. There can scarcely be an inch of land Mr Jones has not been over. The writer did not admire Mr Jones as a lecturer so much as the majority appeared to do, but there can be no question that his work on the colony must in the nature of things be the most complete and valuable yet produced. Mr Jones is certainly a very able man, though perhaps just a trifle too conscious of the fact himself.

The appointment of Mr Joseph Shepherd, of Ohau, as an officer under the Fisheries Conservation Act for the counties of Hutt-Horowhenna, Wairarapa, North and South Pahiatua, Orua, and Manawatu is a good one. He will do his duties excellently.

Dr Caro, of Napier, must be one of the first, if not actually the first. New Zealand practitioner to introduce into the colony what is confidently spoken of as the positive specific for diphtheria. Anti toxin, the new remedy, is, so it is asserted, an absolute and unfailing cure in croup, etc., as well as the fell disease of diphtheria. There is, apparently, only one question, whether the remedy will stand the voyage to the colony. Anti-toxin has one serious drawback ; it is costly in the extreme. At present the demand is so greatly in excess of the possible supply that favour, as well as * fivers,’ are necessary to obtain even the smallest quantity.

Mr W. W. Middleton, of Hawera district, who recently gave up his interest in Opunake, leaves New Zealand almost immediately on a trip to England.

Mr Dalston, of Midland Railway fame, is—or was at the time of writing—still in Wellington in the interests of his Company, the principal business being, of course, the giving of formal notice to the Government of the Midland Railway people’s intention to demand arbitration under the provisions of the contract.